Abstract: A method for dynamically programming and distributing a wearable in an automated vending machine includes receiving at the vending machine a request from a guest to issue a wearable and the determination of an identity of the guest from the request. The method additionally includes selecting a wearable within the vending machine from a repository of unprogrammed wearables and moving the selected wearable out of the repository and into a programming tray, within the vending machine, that is communicatively segregated from the repository within the vending machine. The method further includes programming the selected wearable while the selected wearable remains in the programming tray with information corresponding to the determined identity of the guest. Finally, the method includes ejecting the programmed selected wearable for retrieval by the guest at a dispensing outlet that is disposed within the vending machine but that is accessible from outside of the vending machine.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for guest quarters coordination during muster on a vessel. In an embodiment of the invention, a guest quarters coordination method during muster on a vessel includes initiating a muster event on a vessel and responding to the muster event, in each cabin on the vessel, by activating a television display in the cabin, retrieving a muster location assigned to the cabin and displaying the muster location on the television display.

Abstract: An interactive serving tray is adapted to facilitate the delivery of food or beverages in a hospitality environment. The interactive serving tray includes a platter defined by a flat surface encompassed by a perimeter barrier, and a mobile computing device affixed to the platter, the device including at least one processor, memory, a communications adapter and a display. Finally, the interactive serving tray includes a delivery manager module stored in the memory and executing by the processor, and including computer program instructions operable to perform receiving into the memory through the adapter, an order of a food or beverage item and identity information of a customer associated with the order, such as a digital image of the customer, and displaying the identity information in the display.

Abstract: A method for dynamically programming and distributing a wearable in an automated vending machine includes receiving at the vending machine a request from a guest to issue a wearable and the determination of an identity of the guest from the request. The method additionally includes selecting a wearable within the vending machine from a repository of unprogrammed wearables and moving the selected wearable out of the repository and into a programming tray, within the vending machine, that is communicatively segregated from the repository within the vending machine. The method further includes programming the selected wearable while the selected wearable remains in the programming tray with information corresponding to the determined identity of the guest. Finally, the method includes ejecting the programmed selected wearable for retrieval by the guest at a dispensing outlet that is disposed within the vending machine but that is accessible from outside of the vending machine.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for guest quarters coordination during muster on a vessel. In an embodiment of the invention, a guest quarters coordination method during muster on a vessel includes initiating a muster event on a vessel and responding to the muster event, in each cabin on the vessel, by activating a television display in the cabin, retrieving a muster location assigned to the cabin and displaying the muster location on the television display.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for generating augmented reality in a state room includes establishing a communicative link with different computing devices disposed within separate state rooms, with each of the state rooms including a display positioned at a ceiling, a display positioned on a wall and a display embedded in a floor. The method further includes, for each of the state rooms, assigning a theme of an exterior environment, directing the retrieval from fixed storage of exterior environmental imagery, and directing display of an atmospheric portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display positioned at the ceiling, directing display of a horizon portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display positioned on the wall, and directing display of a surface portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display embedded in the floor.

Abstract: An interactive serving tray is adapted to facilitate the delivery of food or beverages in a hospitality environment. The interactive serving tray includes a platter defined by a flat surface encompassed by a perimeter barrier, and a mobile computing device affixed to the platter, the device including at least one processor, memory, a communications adapter and a display. Finally, the interactive serving tray includes a delivery manager module stored in the memory and executing by the processor, and including computer program instructions operable to perform receiving into the memory through the adapter, an order of a food or beverage item and identity information of a customer associated with the order, such as a digital image of the customer, and displaying the identity information in the display.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for family management during muster on a vessel. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for family management during muster includes associating a mobile device of a child on the vessel with a mobile device of a parent of the child also on the vessel and assigning a muster station on the vessel to the parent and a muster station to the child. For instance, the muster station assigned to the child may be different than that of the parent. Thereafter, during a muster event, a location of the mobile device of the child on the vessel is determined relative to the muster station assigned to the child and a message may be transmitted to the mobile device of the parent indicating the determined location.

Abstract: In augmented reality self-guided tour, different augmented reality views are received in a mobile computing device. One of the views presents a holographic animation of a tourable three-dimensional structure with multiple activatable points of interest disposed thereon. A geographic location of the device relative to the structure is determined and a camera of the device retrieves an image of a surrounding portion of the environment so as to compute a position in the image at which to render the animation. The animation is then projected in the display at the computed position. Upon selecting an activatable point of interest, it is determined if the geographic location matches that of the selected point of interest. If so, a different animation associated with the selected point of interest is projected in the display at the computed position.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic routing during muster. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic routing during distributed muster includes assigning a muster station to a passenger on a vessel and thereafter, locating the passenger at a location on the vessel during a muster event. Once the passenger has been located on the vessel, a path is computed between the location and the muster station and turn by turn instructions assembled for the computed path. Finally, the turn by turn instructions are transmitted to a mobile computing device of the passenger, such as a smart phone or smart watch, for display in the mobile computing device of the passenger during the muster event.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for virtual reality dining includes establishing an index of different human consumables positioned on a sensory surface of a serving tray and, generating in a display of a virtual reality headset, a rendering both of a thematic visual background and also a display of different graphical representations of corresponding ones of the different human consumables at different positions consistent with the index. Thereafter, the removal from the serving tray of one of the different human consumables is detected. In response, a theme of the thematic visual background changes and the thematic visual background re-renders in the headset with the changed theme. Finally, the method includes animating the movement of a display of a corresponding one of the different graphical representations of the removed one of the different human consumables in the headset.

Abstract: An interactive serving tray is adapted to facilitate the delivery of food or beverages in a hospitality environment. The interactive serving tray includes a platter defined by a flat surface encompassed by a perimeter barrier, and a mobile computing device affixed to the platter, the device including at least one processor, memory, a communications adapter and a display. Finally, the interactive serving tray includes a delivery manager module stored in the memory and executing by the processor, and including computer program instructions operable to perform receiving into the memory through the adapter, an order of a food or beverage item and identity information of a customer associated with the order, such as a digital image of the customer, and displaying the identity information in the display.

Abstract: In augmented reality self-guided tour, different augmented reality views are received in a mobile computing device. One of the views presents a holographic animation of a tourable three-dimensional structure with multiple activatable points of interest disposed thereon. A geographic location of the device relative to the structure is determined and a camera of the device retrieves an image of a surrounding portion of the environment so as to compute a position in the image at which to render the animation. The animation is then projected in the display at the computed position. Upon selecting an activatable point of interest, it is determined if the geographic location matches that of the selected point of interest. If so, a different animation associated with the selected point of interest is projected in the display at the computed position.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for virtual reality dining includes establishing an index of different human consumables positioned on a sensory surface of a serving tray and, generating in a display of a virtual reality headset, a rendering both of a thematic visual background and also a display of different graphical representations of corresponding ones of the different human consumables at different positions consistent with the index. Thereafter, the removal from the serving tray of one of the different human consumables is detected. In response, a theme of the thematic visual background changes and the thematic visual background re-renders in the headset with the changed theme. Finally, the method includes animating the movement of a display of a corresponding one of the different graphical representations of the removed one of the different human consumables in the headset.

Abstract: An interactive serving tray is adapted to facilitate the delivery of food or beverages in a hospitality environment. The interactive serving tray includes a platter defined by a flat surface encompassed by a perimeter barrier, and a mobile computing device affixed to the platter, the device including at least one processor, memory, a communications adapter and a display. Finally, the interactive serving tray includes a delivery manager module stored in the memory and executing by the processor, and including computer program instructions operable to perform receiving into the memory through the adapter, an order of a food or beverage item and identity information of a customer associated with the order, such as a digital image of the customer, and displaying the identity information in the display.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for generating augmented reality in a state room includes establishing a communicative link with different computing devices disposed within separate state rooms, with each of the state rooms including a display positioned at a ceiling, a display positioned on a wall and a display embedded in a floor. The method further includes, for each of the state rooms, assigning a theme of an exterior environment, directing the retrieval from fixed storage of exterior environmental imagery, and directing display of an atmospheric portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display positioned at the ceiling, directing display of a horizon portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display positioned on the wall, and directing display of a surface portion of the exterior environmental imagery on the display embedded in the floor.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for virtual reality dining includes establishing an index of different human consumables positioned on a sensory surface of a serving tray and, generating in a display of a virtual reality headset, a rendering both of a thematic visual background and also a display of different graphical representations of corresponding ones of the different human consumables at different positions consistent with the index. Thereafter, the removal from the serving tray of one of the different human consumables is detected. In response, a theme of the thematic visual background changes and the thematic visual background re-renders in the headset with the changed theme. Finally, the method includes animating the movement of a display of a corresponding one of the different graphical representations of the removed one of the different human consumables in the headset.